Excavator

Excavator

Education,

• You need a high school diploma,
• CDL,
• maybe a 2 year tech. school,
• knowledge operating/fixing equipment,
• bidding on jobs,
• know how to follow plans to dig

Salary,

• The pay starts at $31,000 a year and goes up depending on experience, location, and size of company.
• Some smaller companies pay cash and bigger ones pay by check.

Duties,

• haul equipment to cite,
• look at plans of where to dig,
• dig the hole or put in fill depending on plans,
• haul dirt in/out depending on job,
• fix any of the equipment that breaks.

Typical day,

• haul dirt/equipment to job or pickup if the equipment is already there,
• Follow plans on where/what to dig or move,
• haul dirt in/out,
• fix equipment on cite if possible or haul it back to your shop to fix it.
• There are several people working for the company so each person has there own thing to do, so its different.

Jobs,

• excavating has slowed down a lot because of the economy.

Tools,

• truck,
• lowboy,
• dump truck,
• bulldozer,
• bobcat,
• loader,
• backhoe,
• CDL,
• shop with tools to fix any of your stuff.

loader

Peterbilt dump truck

back hoe